Rolo Cookies

I saw this recipe on a blog that I read (thanks Erika) and thought they looked delish! So these are the next cookie recipe for me to try. I would be in the kitchen making them right now if a) I had all the ingredients and b) if I didn't have a huge mound of monster cookies that the kids and I made last night. So I will try them later in the week and let everyone know how they turned out.
Ingredients:
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup butter, softened
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 large eggs
48 Rolo candies-ish (You can also use Reese's pieces! They are delicious, but don't spread out as well, and instead make a bump in the middle of your cookie. But if it's okay with you, it's okay with me. [p.s. if you have Very Helpful tiny people at your house, unwrapping all the Rolos is a very good job])
extra sugar

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 F. In small bowl, combine flour, cocoa, and baking soda. Mix well. In large bowl, beat the sugars and butter until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and eggs; beat well. Add flour mixture; blend well. For each cookie, shape about 1 tablespoon of dough around a Rolo, covering completely. Roll in sugar. Bake 7 - 10 minutes (err on the 7 minute side) or until set and slightly cracked. Cool on cookie sheet 2 minutes, then remove and cool completely on wire racks.
Verdict:
They make 48 cookies and they were gone by the next day. Everyone is asking me to make them again.
Lara: They did take a little bit more than regular cookies but they were still easy and fun. I love trying new treat recipes. I put a little too much dough on the first batch because I was overly worried about the rolos being covered. (If the rolo doesn't get covered you have a melted candy mess on your cookie sheet.) I also don't have cooling racks or a spatula here in NY and those are a must for these cookies. I finally figured out a system but the rolo melted middles drop out of the bottom of them if they aren't cooled all the way and are picked up by the sides. Which was fine by me because I had to eat the mistakes. :)
Turbo: Loved helping unwrap the rolos and roll the cookie in sugar. It was a fun interactive recipe and he loves, loves the cookies.
G: It's food and it's a treat so she loves it. I don't even want to know how many she snuck off the counter.
They were a great way to have a chocolate cookie without having to worry about everything melting all over.

Crunchy Biscuit Casserole

2 C cooked, cubed chicken
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 Cup cut green beans, drained
1 4oz can mushroom pieces and stems
1 Cup shredded cheese
1/2 C salad dressing or mayo
1 tsp lemon juice
1 10oz can Hungry Jack refrigerated big flaky biscuits
1 to 2 Tbsp butter, melted
1/4 to 1/3 C Cheddar cheese or seasoned croutons, crushed.

Preheat oven to 375. In medium saucepan, combine first seven ingredients. Heat until hot and bubbly. Pour hot chicken mixture into ungreased shallow 2 quart casserole dish or 12x8 inch baking dish. Arrange biscuits over top of chicken mixture. Brush each with butter; sprinkle with crushed croutons. Bake 25 to 30 minutes until deep golden brown. Serve immediately. Refrigerate any leftovers. Makes 4 to 6 servings.

To cut down on prep time with this recipe I use canned chicken. We also like it with the french cut green beans over the thicker traditional ones. I also don't usually do the butter and croutons on the top. I don't know why just one of those steps I avoid to save time and I don't usually have croutons on hand.

Crispy Biscuit Casserole

Will Terha or Mom please post the recipe to the crunch biscuit casserole out of the 2nd ward cookbook. I have a bunch of chicken I need to use and that sounds really good. It's the one with the greenbeans, chicken, mayo, cheese and lemon juice and then the biscuits on top. Thanks!

Summer Rush

So living where we are at the pool everyday and all day has made me really plan my meals because the last thing I want to do is come home with two tired and hungry children and try to entertain them for an hour while I plan and fix dinner. So the beginning of this week I cooked all my meat for the week and put it into containers in the fridge. It worked out amazing! It is going to be my new routine. I cooked 2 lbs of ground turkey. 1/2 a pound of it I put taco seasoning in. I cooked up some chicken and put it in the fridge and I baked some potatoes. Then all week when we got home I gave the kids the list of things they could have for dinner which included
Taco's
Taco Salad (more for me and Jeff)
Baked Potato with fixings
Baked Potato with stroganoff
Sloppy Jo's
Chicken and rice
Spaghetti

Dinner took max 15 minutes because all I had to do was heat everything up or cook noodles for spaghetti and I got to spend more time with my kids. I have my menu all planned out for next week also. I just wanted to share my quick tip with everyone now that summer is here and schedules get crazy and nobody wants to cook.